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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 78
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Israel to teach the Lord’s law to their children—Disobedient Israel provokes the Lord in the wilderness—Egyptian plagues recounted—The Lord chooses and blesses Judah and David.
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<center><span class='small'>MASCHIL OF ASAPH.</span></center>
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Give</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 49: 1; 2 Ne. 9: 31; Mosiah 26: 28; D&C 1: 14 (2, 11, 14); Moses 6: 27.">ear</a>, O my people, <i>to</i> my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 13: 35; Luke 8: 10.">parable</a>: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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Which we have heard and known, and our <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 4: 9; Ps. 145: 4 (1-21).">fathers</a> have told us.
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We will not <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 68: 25.">hide</a> <i>them</i> from their children, <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 38: 19.">shewing</a> to the generation to come the praises of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Children, Responsibilities toward.">children</a>:
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That the generation to come might know <i>them, even</i> the children <i>which</i> should be born; <i>who</i> should arise and declare <i>them</i> to their children:
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That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
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And might not be as their <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 1: 4.">fathers</a>, a <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Stubbornness.">stubborn</a> and <sup>c</sup><a href="ps/78/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 5: 23.">rebellious</a> generation; a generation <i>that</i> set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
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The children of Ephraim, <i>being</i> armed, <i>and</i> carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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They kept not the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 28.">covenant</a> of God, and refused to walk in his law;
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And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Miracles.">Marvellous</a> things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, <i>in</i> the field of <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 13: 22.">Zoan</a>.
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He <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 21 (21-22); Ps. 114: 3; Isa. 63: 12.">divided</a> the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
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In the daytime also he led them with a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 13: 21 (21-22); Neh. 9: 12 (12, 19); Ps. 99: 7.">cloud</a>, and all the night with a light of fire.
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He <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 17: 6; Num. 20: 11 (7-11).">clave</a> the rocks in the wilderness, and gave <i>them</i> drink as <i>out of</i> the great depths.
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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 16: 3 (2-3).">meat</a> for their <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Carnal Mind.">lust</a>.
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Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 16: 3 (3-5).">table</a> in the wilderness?
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Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also?  can he provide flesh for his people?
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Therefore the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> heard <i>this,</i> and was wroth: so a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 11: 1 (1, 10).">fire</a> was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
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Because they <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Faith.">believed</a> not in God, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Trust in God.">trusted</a> not in his salvation:
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Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
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And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 6: 31.">corn</a> of heaven.
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Man did eat <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Angels.">angels</a>’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
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He caused an <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 41: 23; Ezek. 27: 26.">east</a> wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 16: 13.">fowls</a> like as the sand of the sea:
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And he let <i>it</i> fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
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So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
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They were not estranged from their <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Lust.">lust</a>.  But while their meat <i>was</i> yet in their mouths,
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The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen <i>men</i> of Israel.
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For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
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Therefore their days did he consume in <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/33a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>, and their years in trouble.
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When he <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 12: 3.">slew</a> them, then they sought him: and they <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/34b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR repented.">returned</a> and <sup>c</sup><a href="ps/78/34c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR earnestly sought.">enquired</a> early after God.
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And they remembered that God <i>was</i> their <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 71: 3; Ps. 92: 15; Moses 7: 53.">rock</a>, and the high God their redeemer.
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Nevertheless they did <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/36a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Flattery.">flatter</a> him with their mouth, and they <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/36b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 57: 11.">lied</a> unto him with their tongues.
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For their <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/37a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Heart.">heart</a> was not right with him, neither were they <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/37b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Steadfastness.">stedfast</a> in his covenant.
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But he, <i>being</i> full of compassion, forgave <i>their</i> iniquity, and destroyed <i>them</i> not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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For he remembered that they <i>were but</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/39a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mortality.">flesh</a>; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
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How oft did they <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/40a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Provoking.">provoke</a> him in the wilderness, <i>and</i> grieve him in the desert!
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Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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They remembered not his hand, <i>nor</i> the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
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How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
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And had turned their rivers into blood; and their <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/44a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB streams.">floods</a>, that they could not drink.
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He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/46a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 10: 14 (12-15).">locust</a>.
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He destroyed their vines with <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/47a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 9: 25 (23-25).">hail</a>, and their sycomore trees with frost.
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/49a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">evil</a> angels <i>among them.</i>
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He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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And smote all the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/51a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Firstborn.">firstborn</a> in Egypt; the chief of <i>their</i> strength in the <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/78/51b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB tents, dwellings.">tabernacles</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="ps/78/51c" mark="c" type="A" title="Abr. 1: 21 (21-25).">Ham</a>:
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But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/53a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 28 (27-28).">sea</a> overwhelmed their enemies.
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And he brought them <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/54a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR into his holy land.">to</a> the border of his sanctuary, <i>even to</i> this mountain, <i>which</i> his right hand had purchased.
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He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/57a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 7: 16 (14-16).">deceitful</a> bow.
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For they <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/58a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 16.">provoked</a> him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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When God heard <i>this,</i> he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/60a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 18: 31.">Shiloh</a>, the tent <i>which</i> he placed among men;
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And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
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He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
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The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
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Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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Then the Lord <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/65a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 73: 20.">awaked</a> as one out of sleep, <i>and</i> like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
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And he built his sanctuary like high <i>palaces,</i> like the earth which he hath established for <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/69a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Purpose of.">ever</a>.
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He chose <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/70a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 16: 13 (11-13).">David</a> also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
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So he fed them according to the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/78/72a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sincerity.">integrity</a> of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
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